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On Record Store Day, Jack White’s Third Man Records debuted their analog vinyl recording booth, which allows patrons to crank out quickie two-minute records. During the label headquarters’ Record Store Day festivities, a ton of people, including Neil Young, recorded their own mini-platter. And White himself also took the booth for a spin, recording a… More »

Record Store Day is upon us — this Saturday, 4/20 to be exact — and Jack White, ambassador of the whole shebang, and his Nashville hub for Third Man Records will unveil a brand new analog machine, the Third Man Recording Booth, at the store for the event. Like the Mold-O-Rama and Dip’n’Dunk photobooth before… More »

As we reported earlier this year, Jay-Z had a large hand in the music component of the upcoming Baz Lurhmann’s film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The tracklist for the soundtrack, which Jay executive produced, has been revealed and includes an eclectic array of artists. On the theme of the music, Lurhma… More »

VH1 just aired the debut episode of a new show, “For What It’s Worth,” exploring “the intricate world of music and pop culture memorabilia” from the perspective of “the collector.” The debut features Jack White and is set at the Third Man Records HQ in Nashville. White discusses the “Triple Decker Record,” a format he… More »

Yesterday, I was walking through the Brooklyn neighborhood to which I moved not three weeks ago, when I fell upon an indie video store that had just that day announced a going-out-of-business clearance sale. After seven years, the store was closing for good, finally worn down by the likes of Netflix and torrent communities and… More »

About two thirds of the way through last night’s endless Grammy ceremony, Justin Timberlake ambled onstage for the second time, this time to flank Recording Academy CEO and inveterate pirate-scolder Neil Portnoy. Timberlake asked a question: “Best Grammys ever?” Then he answered himself: “Best Grammys ever.” Well, no, Justin. The idea of a “best” Grammys,… More »

The Grammys! We spent altogether too much of last night watching and talking about them, and now it’s time to pick through the refuse for the gems. Not too surprisingly, two of the best performances came from the recent wave of personal, psychedelic R&B singer-songwriters. Frank Ocean may have lost in every single major category,… More »

There was a lively conversation in the m b v comments yesterday regarding the subject of taking drugs to enhance (or not) one’s experience listening to music. But what about — to borrow a classic from Spacemen 3 — taking drugs to make music to take drugs to? As frontman of the Butthole Surfers for… More »

I’m having special levels of good feeling toward Jack White right now, after watching my Baltimore Ravens advance in the playoffs in Ray Lewis’s last-ever home game. (Ravens fans like to chant the “Seven Nation Army” riff after every big play. Because we’re awesome.) And it’s pretty fortuitous that White appeared on the PBS live-music… More »

On Portlandia’s special holiday episode, there was a sketch in which Fred Armisen played a nervous, vintage-gear-obsessed studio engineer who uses the phrase Pet Sounds over and over, like a tourettic tic. To guys like that, Jack White must be some sort of glowing deity, so that’s the form he took when he showed up. More »

Jack White and Conan O’Brien have a long history together. During the peak of their meteoric rise, the White Stripes played a week-long residency at Late Night With Conan O’Brien. Then, Conan showed up in the Stripes’ video for “The Denial Twist,” in which Michel Gondry recreated a fantastical version of that residency. (I’m also… More »

A couple days ago, as part of a “First Look” online teaser for their new print edition, Esquire UK shared a few quotes from their new cover story on Jack White, and those quotes included what appeared to be a shot at Lady Gaga. Said White of La Ga, “I don’t think she lives it… More »

The metal rag Decibel was the first prominent publication to drop a year-end best-albums list, but MOJO, that boomer-friendliest of all the major UK rock magazines, isn’t far behind. Given the magazine’s classic-rock proclivities, it’s probably not a shock that they named Jack White’s pretty-great Blunderbuss as their #1 pick for 2012; it’s got a… More »

Jack White’s Third Man Records Nashville headquarters now has a new feature: A tourist-attraction sort of deal called the Novelty Lounge. The room is filled with coin-operated gadgets like a video jukebox and a machine that makes wax models of guitars, and all of them run exclusively on Third Man tokens. And to celebrate the… More »

Jack White has a history of releasing music and merch in cool and unusual ways; his new “Vault Package 14″ may not be among his 10 weirdest, but it’s still pretty neat: It includes a 7″ of demos for “Freedom At 21,” “Love Interruption,” and “Hypocritical Kiss”; Shark Infested Soda Fountain, a photo book from… More »

I spent a pretty good chunk of the week in transit to or from New York, or doing New York things while I was in New York, so I didn’t see a lot of this weeks’ videos before the massive video-watching binge I went on this morning. And I have to say: Lots of good… More »

Today, Jack White dropped the video for “I’m Shakin’,” the fired-up Little Willie John video that appeared on his still-great album Blunderbuss. White’s been famously touring with two bands lately, one all-male and one all-female. And in the video, two different Whites and both of his bands face off against each other, soundclash-style. Here’s how… More »

On Saturday night, Jack White played a sold out Radio City Music Hall. Problem is, he only played for 45 minutes, something that incited the wrath of both folks in the theater as well as folks on Twitter. More, via the Observer:… More »

Over the weekend, thousands of fans flocked to this year’s Outside Lands at Golden Gate Park. Overcast and chilly weather was offset by the fire from the Metallica pyrotechnics and warm vibes from festival attendees. Neil Young & Crazy Horse turned up their guitars to close out Friday, Metallica blew everyone away with their hellfire… More »

This past weekend, the Outside Lands festival came to San Francisco, and Jack White was among the headliners. But White also played a smaller show over the weekend, doing a surprise pop-up set with his all-female backing band in some nearby woods, with the Third Man Records van parked on site. Watch White doing “Love… More »

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The Doors are part of a very specific category of classic-rock artists: the gateway artists. The bands that — assuming you weren’t around in the ’60s — are amongst the first names you explore when you start digging into pop music’s past. Though keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore were all… More »

Last night, U2 played the seventh night of an eight-night stand at Madison Square Garden. (Our own young classic rocker Ryan Leas reviewed one of those shows earlier in the week.) And at last night’s show, the band introduced a few special local guests. There was New York royalty Paul Simon, who came out to… More »

After reportedly showing up half an hour late, rapper Travi$ Scott got his Lollapalooza set shut down after only 5 minutes by encouraging fans to jump the security barrier and rush the stage. Festival organizers deemed the resulting chaos to be unsafe and shut the whole thing down, with security forcibly removing Scott from the… More »

Eminem is a pretty fit dude — for a while, he was even attached to star in Antoine Fuqua’s new boxing movie Southpaw. So how does Eminem stay a pretty fit dude? By working out compulsively. And in a new article on Men’s Journal, the rapper details his compulsive exercise regimen. “In the early days,”… More »

Morrissey often uses his True To You website to write about cases of what he considers to be societal injustice, as he did in the recent post blasting the killer of Cecil the lion. But as Pitchfork points out, Morrissey’s latest post for the site details a much more personal violation. Morrissey writes that, a… More »

Lollapalooza takes place this weekend in Chicago, and most of the sets from the festival will be livestreaming via Red Bull TV in case you can’t (or don’t want to) leave the comfort of your own home. Some of the acts performing this weekend include Paul McCartney (with a highlights-only set streaming), Metallica, the Weeknd,… More »

Superproducer Mark Ronson stopped by for a live in-studio session at Australian radio station Triple J today. As usual, he assembled a crack team of musicians to back him up, including Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker and Kirin J. Callinan on guitar. The band performed a great psyched-out cover of Queens Of The Stone Age’s “I… More »

Drake has already released not one but two diss tracks in response to Meek Mill’s ghostwriting allegations. After Funkmaster Flex promised a Meek response track Monday night on Hot 97 and failed to deliver, people were pissed, and everyone began to wonder if this mega-beef were already over. But no — the soap opera continues! More »